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Percussion Music: From Lou Harrison’s collection of 78 rpm acetate records

Publication date: 1971-03-10

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Topics: KPFA-FM, Ode to Gravity Series, Lou Harrison, Percussion Music, New Music, acetate discs, 78rpm

On this installment of Ode to Gravity, Charles Amirkhanian unearths rare gems from Lou Harrison’s personal record collection. Amirkhanian focuses on percussion music from the late 1930s and early 1940s, broadcasting selections by American composers Harrison, Henry Cowell, Johanna Beyer and William Russell. Many of these recordings were made live at one of John Cage’s famous percussion concerts, in 1939 at the Cornish School in Seattle. The final selection features Leopold Stokowski conducting Harrison’s Canticle #3 at New York’s MOMA. The recordings were made from Harrison’s rare 78 and 33 rpm acetate transcription discs.

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Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Addeddate: 2007-03-21 00:57:15

Boxid: OL100020605

Identifier: OTG_1971_03_10

Run time: 61 min

Source: 78

Year: 1971

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Reviewer: Charles Amirkhanian - - March 30, 2007
Subject: Steve Layton on Harrison Collection

Just discovered this nice mention on Sequenza21.com blog of composer Steve Layton: The pieces on these recordings represent the core of the West-Coast experimentalist group (I know, I know, Harry Partch; but he was off on his own very different journey). . . You just can’t get much closer to sitting in on the roots of this exciting period.

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